Over the past three decades, Andrew Smith has filmed in conflict zones, with refugee and campaigning organisations and highlighted the work of charities tackling FGM and child abuse, extreme poverty, racism and hatred, climate change, environmental destruction and state oppression, violence and brutality. He's also filmed in war zones such as Ukraine and post-conflict regions of the Balkans, Kosovo and Iraq, he's infiltrated child sex rings operating in Romania and across Europe and investigated war crimes.

Below you can find clips from some of these films:

DISPATCHES: WITNESS TO MURDER

In 1999/2000, he spent 18 months filming across Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, and the Republic of Serbia, including this hour-long war crimes investigation into the murder of over 100 men in a small village by Serbian paramilitaries. In this disturbing clip, we accompany the women of the village back to find the corpses of their loved ones and ruins of their homes. With John Sweeney, Gerry Gregg and the late James Miller.

This film won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Current Affairs and led to a successful war crimes case at the Hague

HELPING STREET CHILDREN IN GHANA

Charity workers Ray and Faustina rescue street children living and working in the most dangerous slums of the Ghanaian city of Bolgatanga. 

​The documentary, filmed, directed and edited by Andrew Smith, was made with charity AfriKids, raised £250,000 for the charity to continue its work. Entitled How To Make A Difference in Africa, it won a prestigious Smiley Award for charity films and was funded by Gower Street Trust. You can see the full film here:

https://smileycharityfilmawards.com/films/how-to-make-a-difference-in-africa

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ON THE FRONTLINE OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Every week, civilian volunteer Anna Sandalova of Ukrainian charity EuroArmyMaydan delivers medical and humanitarian supplies to the most dangerous parts of the frontline. The documentary took us to the frontline trenches of a bitter conflict in the midst of winter.

Filmed, directed and edited by Andrew Smith, it was broadcast globally by Al Jazeera.

INDIA'S FIRST BEST TRANSGENDER MODELLING AGENCY

Filmed over four years in Delhi, a self-funded feature documentary, collaborating with Indian documentary-maker Ila Mehotra. Our film looked at the complex and difficult lives of a group of marginalised transgender people, forced into prostitution and begging by societal and family pressures. The documentary followed their efforts to run a charity and set up a modelling agency, to change their image and allow them to define their own aesthetic and dignity.

In this clip, we catch up with their inspirational leader, Rudrani, shortly after she has been beaten up by a transphobic gang on the streets of Delhi,

Released to the festival circuit in 2024

GIVING REFUGEES THE CHANCE OF A FUTURE

A Jordanian NGO teaches stonemasonry to Syrian refugees, giving them the skills to help rebuild their shattered country.

Featuring presenter Bettany Hughes and filmed, directed and edited by Andrew Smith with DoP Tim Knight, the film was broadcast to an audience of millions on BBC World.

​With Sandstone Global, the documentary was funded by the British Council

CAMPAIGNING AGAINST FGM IN SENEGAL

Fatou Diatta, Senegal's most famous rapper, also runs a human rights charity with a huge mission - entirely stamping out the harmful cultural practice of FGM, after she herself underwent the procedure as a child. 

In this film, she returns to her home village in a remote area of Senegal to start the campaign.

The documentary, filmed, directed and edited by Andrew Smith, was broadcast globally by Al Jazeera.

​INVESTIGATING STATE BRUTALITY IN TUNISIA

Brave civil rights campaigners in Tunisia investigate police brutality and state torture by their own government.

The  documentary was filmed, directed and edited by Andrew Smith undercover in Tunisia, working with very brave local activists and lawyers, It was broadcast globally by Al Jazeera.
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CAMPAIGNING FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN UKRAINE

Andriy Khlyvnyuk is one of Ukraine's most famous rock stars. He joins forces with civil rights activists and the Belarus Free Theatre to campaign for freedom of expression.

The feature-length film was broadcast across the world and shown in international festivals, gaining millions of views. It has added relevance since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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DISPATCHES: TRUTH AND LIES IN BAGHDAD

This even-handed war crimes documentary was made in the run up to war inside Saddam Hussein's totalitarian state and looked at the propaganda and competing claims on both sides of the war. It included an investigation of Saddam's brutal fedayeen, the activities of his notorious son Uday Hussein, and we also became the first Western journalists invited inside an alleged chemical weapons factory in Iraq - which turned out to be a mushroom production factory.

Filmed and directed by Andrew Smith with reporter Sam Kiley. Broadcast by Channel 4 and PBS in 2003.

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UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION for CUTTING EDGE AND CNN
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In 2005, Andrew Smith went undercover inside an international paedophile ring which was trafficking underage boys from Romania to clients across Europe. A two year investigation turned into the most disturbing job of his career. It led to the arrest and prosecution of the lead paedophile and won Andrew the prestigious POLK Award for Investigative Journalism.

Filmed and directed by Andrew Smith with Romanian journalist Liviu Tipurita. 
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TURNING THE TABLES ON THE IRAQI SECRET POLICE

A relatively upbeat scene from Andrew Smith's filming with reporter Sam Kiley in the run-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Working inside Iraq, all journalists knew they were constantly surveilled by Saddam's secret police.

​We set out to show how it was done.

(Incidentally, the copy of Bleak House which the secret police rifles through was Andrew's not Sam's)

Filmed and directed by Andrew Smith with reporter Sam Kiley